Innovative Prospects for Russia - EU cooperation
The second day of the Russia - Europe Conference on “Innovative Policy for Economic Growth: Goals and Tools” , held at the SU-HSE focused on Russian and European Union innovative policy research results.
We are the best in the world, but it’s hard to believe.
On October 28th, as part of the “Urgent research and design in education” workshop, there was a discussion of the PIRLS international comparative research results from 2006 on the reading skills of primary school pupils, where Russia occupied the top position among the 40 participating countries.
Howard Davis lecture "Credit Crunch and Its Consequences"
On November 17 Howard Davis, the LSE director, presented a lecture "Credit Crunch and Its Consequences" at the SU—HSE. Mr. Davis depicted the global financial crush as a drama consisting of five parts: subprime, liquidity, unravelling,meltdown and pumping. At the end of his lecture Mr. Davis offered several ways to overcome the crisis.
The HSE Chinese Performance
On October 10-11th, an International forum on "The History of Economic Thinking and Methodology" took place at the HSE. This event was organized by the HSE Economics faculty in cooperation with Wuhan University, China.
Martin Gilman: Don't Expect Miracles From the G20 Summit
Martin Gilman, a former senior representative of the International Monetary Fund in Russia, is a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow speaks for The Moscow Times.
Uneasy Questions for Russian Sociology
This year, Russian sociology is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It seems like a good time to reflect on its current situation. On the eve of the Third All-Russia Sociological Congress, the HSE First Deputy Rector, the Department of Economic Sociology Chief Vadim Radaev spoke to us about this event.
Top Level Coverage
As the “RatOR” ` ratings showed, the Higher School of Economics is the leader among Russian universities in information coverage for applicants (considering Web-communications level during 2008 entrance exams).
Moscow "Patterns of transition"
On the 28-30th of August, 2008 the 10th bi-annual European Association for Comparative Economic Studies conference “Patterns of Transition and New Approaches to Comparative Economics” had been held at the SU-HSE, Moscow.
In the land of France
The Center for Cooperation with France and French – speaking countries (i.e. the HSE French Center) is one of the most successful departments for cooperation with foreign universities. About 50 students visit France and Luxemburg for studies every year. Irina Maltseva, the chief of the Center, spoke to us about last year’s activities and the Centre's plans for the future.
Mukharlamov's trilemma
In 2008 before graduating from the HSE International College of Economics and Finance Vladimir Mukharlamov faced a serious dilemma. Well, honestly speaking, a, trilemma. Nothing awful, just day-to-day troubles. Vladimir overcame it successfully despite some obstacles. Let’s start with the background…